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North American Megadam Resistance Alliance
Protecting rivers and their communities by resisting megadams and their transmission corridors
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  • The Impacts of Megadams
    • What is Hydropower?
    • The Climate Crisis
    • Human Rights Violations
    • Methylmercury Poisoning
    • Environment and Habitat
    • Corporate Profits
    • Destructive Transmission Corridors
    • Water Cycles
    • 10 Reasons Why Large Hydropower Projects are a Climate Disaster
  • Canadian Megadams
    • Romaine River Dams, Quebec
    • Muskrat Falls Dam, Churchill River, Labrador
      • Government Inquiry on Muskrat Falls Project
    • Gull Island Project, Churchill River, Labrador
  • US Transmission Corridors for Canadian Hydro
    • New Hampshire: Northern Pass
    • New York: Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE)
    • Maine: NECEC – CMP Corridor
    • Vermont: New England Clean Power Link
    • Vermont Green Line
    • Empire State Connector
    • Atlantic Link
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    • Resources on dams & hydropower
      • 2016 Pessamit Innu First Nation Petition to Intervene in the proposed Northern Pass project
      • Report: NECEC and CHPE transmission corridors tied to potential for more dam construction
      • Clean Hydropower Energy is a Myth
      • Muskrat Falls Inquiry
  • Archives & Events
    • Earth Day 2020
    • 2019 Northeast U.S. Speaking Tour
      • Slide Presentations from 2019 Northeast U.S. Speaking Tour
    • Conference of Northeastern U.S. Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
    • International Coalition on Large Dams
    • Indigenous Land and Water Defenders Arrive in Ottawa to Demand End to Large Hydro Dams
    • Grand Riverkeeper & Labrador Land Protectors Speaking Tour Spring 2019
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    • Human Rights & U.N. DRIP Petition
    • The Northern Pass and NECEC

Newsletters

May 2020 Newsletter

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April 2020 Newsletter

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February 2020 Newsletter

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January 2020 Newsletter

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Breaking News & Reports

May 27, 2020 – NAMRA’s Response to Governor Cuomo’s proposal to import more Canadian hydropower and build a transmission corridor from Canada to New York 

May 21, 2020 – Newly released maps show damaging transmission corridors and megadam projects in U.S. and Canada

May 21, 2020 – Innu Nation Grand Chief Affidavit Submitted Regarding the New England Clean Energy Connect Transmission Corridor (CMP Corridor)

May 19, 2020 – Sign NAMRA’s Petition Calling on Northeast U.S. Governors to Reject Candian Hydro

May 19, 2020 – Release of film – Canadian Megadams & Voices of the Resistance: Why Hydropower is Dirty Energy

May 19, 2020 – Community Conversations with the Maine Sierra Club

May 9, 2020 – Submit comments to oppose CHPE’s application for a US Presidential Permit (due May 18, 2020)

May 7, 2020 – May Newsletter

April 24, 2020 –  Virtual Earth Day Events 

April 6, 2020 – Muskrat Fall Inquiry release and summary

March 5, 2020 – NorthBridge Report

March 5, 2020 – Report: Clean Hydropower Energy is a Myth: Hydro-Quebec’s Mega Dams are a Key Contributor to Global Warming and have Devastated the North Atlantic and Gulf of Maine Fisheries (courtesy of Friends of Sebago Lake)

SmugMug Gallery

Click here to view NAMRA’s SmugMug Gallery which contains photos, maps, and descriptions of major hydro-electric facilities in Canada, Indigenous and allied resistance, and NAMRA events.

NAMRA is a broad-based ad hoc alliance of groups and individuals who care about rivers, communities and climate. We are pluralistic, a clearinghouse for information, and a forum for voices from various communities on the issue of megadams and energy policy impacts on rivers and human rights. 

We are not funded by or allied with any for-profit venture, including any that might compete with megadams in the energy marketplace. We are volunteer-led, with a volunteer coordinator. In 2019 we hired a paid staffer.  We are not a 501(c)(3), but operate with a fiscal sponsor, the Global Justice Ecology Project, an arrangement fully in compliance with IRS and non-profit governance standards and best practices.

To learn more about NAMRA’s story, click here.

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